30 Percent Of Visitors Who Come To Situ Bagendit Garut During Lebaran Enter Via The Rat Path

Garut Deputy Regent Helmi Budiman (Photo via Antara)

JAKARTA - It turns out that many tourists enter the 'rat route' or don't buy tickets when they come to the tourist spot Situ Bagendit, Garut, West Java during the Lebaran holiday season.

"There are a lot of people who don't use tickets. We haven't finished (the arrangement) here, so there are a lot of 'rat' lanes that enter here," said Garut Deputy Regent Helmi Budiman, Thursday, May 19, quoted from Antara.

Situ Bagendit received direct attention from the central government, which revitalized it to make it more attractive, comfortable, and become a world-class tourist spot.

Situ Bagendit Tourism, although not yet inaugurated, but the level of tourist visits is already quite crowded. The proof is that during the Eid holiday season, it is crowded by visitors from various regions.

Those who visited, he said, entered through official channels, namely two gates managed by the regional government, then five gates managed by Bumdes and the local community.

"Then there are also not a few who pass through the roads that have not been closed, yes, so there are many "rats" or whatever that enter there," he said.

If a percentage, he said, tourists who enter the official route or buy tickets are around 70 percent or around 40 thousand, the rest may enter using the "rat route" or not buy tickets.

"Officially, about 70 percent of those who buy tickets buy tickets," he said.

He conveyed that the Situ Bagendit tourist attraction had finished its revitalization stage and planned to be inaugurated directly by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo.

The regional government, he said, had made preparations for the planned inauguration by cleaning up residual waste from tourist activities during the long holiday season.

"Not only that (waste) including how the placement of traders, the placement of the place for the game, including the placement of water hyacinth or lotus," he said.